Καῦνος

Where it lives

• History 10 · 0.67/10k
• Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Καῦνον · Kaunon Herodotus, Histories 1.176.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1243)
• Καῦνον · Kaunon Herodotus, Histories 5.103.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6078)
• Καύνου · Kaunou Thucydides, History 1.116.3 (DIORISIS sentence 725)
• Καύνου · Kaunou Thucydides, History 8.108.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6048)
• Καῦνον · Kaunon Thucydides, History 8.39.3 (DIORISIS sentence 5614)
• Καῦνον · Kaunon Thucydides, History 8.41.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5621)

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Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Καῦνος (scan p. 706; entry #3005).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Καῦνος (scan p. 520; entry #3754).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Καῦνος (scan p. 835; entry #2862).

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